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Post by jill on Jun 15, 2009 23:04:59 GMT
Anybody? Top five 'worse films ever' (and why, of course)?
I'm trying to whittle down my list...I'll be back!
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Post by GR on Jun 16, 2009 0:07:16 GMT
This is a hard one for me, because usually if I see something I don't like, I tend to block it out of my mind rather than dwell on it. But I'll try... 1. Natural Born Killers -- the only one I can honestly say I hated with a passion. I went into this (rented on video) with pretty high expectations based on Entertainment Weekly's rave review; but ultimately I came away with the conclusion that 5 minutes of John Waters' Serial Mom had more to say about crime and media celebrity than 2 whole hours of this shrill mess did.  2. Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me -- I was very much looking forward to this before I caught it on the big screen in the summer of '99. Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997) was an obvious labor of love, with an easygoing, ramshackle charm, and it was one of the most purely pleasurable theatergoing experiences I'd ever had. The sequel, on the other hand, was clearly motivated by money, ratcheting up the sexual and scatalogical humor and the random pop-cultural references while downplaying the sweetness (not to mention the plot logic) of the original. (I skipped 2002's Goldmember altogether.) 3. The Rock -- I saw this in the theater in the summer of '96, around the same time as Twister and Independence Day. At least the latter two had some truly impressive visual effects (though I couldn't really care about any of the characters); but The Rock, to me, was like the cinematic equivalent of a sledgehammer. (Funny story: The weekend I went to see it with my parents, the theater was quite busy, and we were accidentally given tickets to Mission: Impossible. Now I'm no Tom Cruise fan, but in retrospect, I still kinda wish we had gone to see that instead.) 4. Town & Country -- I was curious about this one because of Diane Keaton and Goldie Hawn (who were so funny together in The First Wives Club), and Warren Beatty (whom I had really liked in Bulworth); plus, though it was a famously troubled production (it had gone through a number of rewrites and been shot off and on over a period of 3 years), the premise sounded like a smart, adult romantic comedy. My mother got it on VHS for me as one of my Christmas presents in 2001, and I had never imagined that the finished product could be something so tasteless, immature and downright unwitty in its "humor." 5. There's Something About Mary -- big letdown. Outside of Jonathan Richman's musical numbers, I didn't find this very funny or sweet at all. Some of the set pieces (the "franks and beans" in the zipper, the semen "hair gel" bit, etc.) made me giggle a little, but I generally felt they were trying too hard to be outrageous (I thought the whole zipper sequence especially went on a lot longer than it needed to); and there wasn't enough going on with the characters to interest me between those set pieces. EDIT: I could just as easily replace 2-4 with these: 2. City Slickers II -- possibly the most pointless sequel ever, I saw this once on video about 15 years ago and it still ticks me off. (The original was one of my favorite movies as a kid.) Talk about motivated strictly by money -- even the plot simply concerned nothing more than a search for gold. 3. Con Air -- perhaps more pin-you-to-your-seat-and-beat-you-into-submission in its action and special effects than even The Rock, though at least this one had a few laughs. 4. Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood -- I have nothing against Southern-fried chick flicks in general ( Steel Magnolias and Fried Green Tomatoes were two more of my favorite movies growing up), but this was too witless for comedy, and too shrill and silly to be taken seriously. Good soundtrack, though. 5. America's Sweethearts -- saw this Hollywood satire/rom-com on the big screen in 2001; I really wanted to like it, too. Unfortunately, like Town & Country, it turned out to be little more than a gratuitously crass waste of talent (I felt especially bad for Billy Crystal and John Cusack). Only Christopher Walken (as a nutty movie director) was worth watching. |
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Post by marksherbert on Jun 16, 2009 8:26:14 GMT
1. The Boondock Saints - After being recommended it heartily I was disappointed to discover a confused, rambling, over-acted, macho, sub-Tarantino piece of trash. Why people rave about it I don't know, but they do.
2. Dude, Where's My Car? - How irritating can one film be? This irritating.
3. The Football Factory - Just shit.
4. Green Street - As above.
5. SLC Punk - I'm not even wasting colourful language on this one.
EDIT: I forgot Human Traffic, Revolver, Top Gun.
As with all these type of things, I'll think of more soon.
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Post by sugarbeat on Jun 16, 2009 17:28:15 GMT
Sorry to be a grammar Nazi but the title of the thread should read "worst films ever".
Anyway, the films I've hated most are:
1) I Heart Huckerbees - made me want to punch everyone involved in making it in the face.
2) Brick - very irritating film.
3) Attack of the Clones - unspeakably dreadful.
4) Psycho (the remake) - completely redundant.
5) Batman and Robin - just as bad as it gets.
However the actual worst film ever made is The Rollerblade Seven (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Roller_Blade_Seven). If you don't believe me - find it and watch it, and soon you will understand a different level of awfulness.
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Post by sinbad1971 on Jun 16, 2009 23:34:53 GMT
Freddy got fingered, the absolute pits, it makes me feel ill thinking about it.
Most pointless film ever, When a Stranger Calls (2006 remake) haven't seen the original and based on this never will! Awful.
Honourable mention goes to Eps 1 and 2 of Star Wars, nigh on unwatchable.
can't agree with Austin Powers all of them are hilarious in places.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 17, 2009 11:57:34 GMT
1. The Boondock Saints - After being recommended it heartily I was disappointed to discover a confused, rambling, over-acted, macho, sub-Tarantino piece of trash. Why people rave about it I don't know, but they do. Hahahahahhahahahahahahaha. I bought the documentary, Overnight, about the making of this film. It's hilarious. It shows you how the guy who made it let his vanity completely piss his own career up the wall. The Boondock Saints was also on there as a special feature. I had to turn it off after 20 minutes. It's like a really bad student film with a larger budget made by the stereotypical film student who thinks he's going to be the next Tarantino. Here's the bad news. Apparently he's on his way back with The Boondock Saints 2. The horror, the horror!!! |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 17, 2009 12:06:57 GMT
1) I Heart Huckerbees - made me want to punch everyone involved in making it in the face. 2) Brick - very irritating film. 3) Attack of the Clones - unspeakably dreadful. 4) Psycho (the remake) - completely redundant. 5) Batman and Robin - just as bad as it gets. Interesting that you should pic Attack of the Clones and not Phantom Menace. Admittedly they are both quite terrible. But at least Clones was mostly Binks-free. |
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Post by cliftonestate on Jun 17, 2009 16:59:50 GMT
Tom Hanks
In any film.
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Post by marksherbert on Jun 17, 2009 17:07:55 GMT
1. The Boondock Saints - After being recommended it heartily I was disappointed to discover a confused, rambling, over-acted, macho, sub-Tarantino piece of trash. Why people rave about it I don't know, but they do. Hahahahahhahahahahahahaha. I bought the documentary, Overnight, about the making of this film. It's hilarious. It shows you how the guy who made it let his vanity completely piss his own career up the wall. The Boondock Saints was also on there as a special feature. I had to turn it off after 20 minutes. It's like a really bad student film with a larger budget made by the stereotypical film student who thinks he's going to be the next Tarantino. Here's the bad news. Apparently he's on his way back with The Boondock Saints 2. The horror, the horror!!! I saw that doc too - after I'd seen Boondock Saints. It lowered it even further in my estimations. Awful. |
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Post by RydCook on Jun 17, 2009 18:22:38 GMT
Disagree with a bit in this thread already... Natural Born Killers is alright, Spy Who Shagged me is great! Although I will say Goldmember was poor. Brick is excellent. I like Freddy Got Fingered, guess I have sick/silly sense of humour! Will write up my list later.
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Post by sugarbeat on Jun 17, 2009 20:12:39 GMT
1) I Heart Huckerbees - made me want to punch everyone involved in making it in the face. 2) Brick - very irritating film. 3) Attack of the Clones - unspeakably dreadful. 4) Psycho (the remake) - completely redundant. 5) Batman and Robin - just as bad as it gets. Interesting that you should pic Attack of the Clones and not Phantom Menace. Admittedly they are both quite terrible. But at least Clones was mostly Binks-free. The experience of Clones was mostly one of self-loathing, as I had hated Phantom Menace, and promised I wouldn't be hoodwinked into seeing any others. As soon as it started I hated the film and hated myself. But I've never watched Revenge of the Sith, and never will. I promise. |
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Post by Gareth on Jun 17, 2009 20:17:19 GMT
yeah I love Freddy Got Fingered,
theres a few films that I haven't watched all the way through:
"We Own The Night" - didnt expect much, it delivered even less
"A Sharks Tale" - knew it wasnt gonna be Nemo but my flatmate put it on one night, the fish just walked round like humans, had arms and legs and cars etc. if I remember rightly, but when they started drinking glasses of water under water I turned off.
"10000 years BC" - TERRIBLE
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Post by Deleted on Jun 17, 2009 22:31:55 GMT
Interesting that you should pic Attack of the Clones and not Phantom Menace. Admittedly they are both quite terrible. But at least Clones was mostly Binks-free. The experience of Clones was mostly one of self-loathing, as I had hated Phantom Menace, and promised I wouldn't be hoodwinked into seeing any others. As soon as it started I hated the film and hated myself. But I've never watched Revenge of the Sith, and never will. I promise. I promise I'm not yanking your chain when I say this, but please don't let Phantom and Clones put you off Revenge of the Sith. For my money it's the best Star Wars film. I know that's hard to believe after the abominations of the first two but there is good reason. Lucas only ever really wanted to tell the story that makes up the third film. But because he's a money grabbing tossbag who has to have a 'trilogy', he came up with all the bollocks for Phantom and Clones so he could pad it out and have three films. Watch Sith. Ignore Phantom. Forget Clones. |
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Post by Salvador on Jun 18, 2009 15:32:58 GMT
3. The Rock -- I saw this in the theater in the summer of '96, around the same time as Twister and Independence Day. At least the latter two had some truly impressive visual effects (though I couldn't really care about any of the characters); but The Rock, to me, was like the cinematic equivalent of a sledgehammer. (Funny story: The weekend I went to see it with my parents, the theater was quite busy, and we were accidentally given tickets to Mission: Impossible. Now I'm no Tom Cruise fan, but in retrospect, I still kinda wish we had gone to see that instead.) THE ROCK IN YOUR TOP 5 WORST FILMS EVER!!!!! GR thats enough to bring me back to these forums. How on earth can you call the greatest, most quoteable film ever made the 3rd worst film ever made. Its a classic, a masterpiece! Losers whine on about doing their best! Winners go home and fuck the prom queen! Come on thats genius! |
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Post by GR on Jun 18, 2009 16:48:20 GMT
To each their own, man -- it just wasn't for me!  (BTW, the one line in it that actually made me giggle was not the one you quoted, but rather, "How, in the name of Zeus' BUTTHOLE, did you get out of your cell?!?"  ) Of course now that I've had more time to think about it, I could just as easily replace that one with My Best Friend's Wedding -- caught it on video once in late '97. I've seen a lot of chick flicks and rom-coms in my day -- as you might have guessed from many of my other picks -- but this, to me, represents the worst of both: There's nothing really romantic or funny about it, and frankly, its portrayals of women are pretty insulting. (At least the adorable Rupert Everett, as Julia Roberts' wisecracking gay confidant, makes the most of his stock-cliche` character.) |
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